Is Religiosity Associated with Corporal Punishment or Child Abuse?

2008 ◽  
Vol 101 (7) ◽  
pp. 707-710 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Socolar ◽  
Elaine Cabinum-Foeller ◽  
Sara H. Sinal
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Corporal Punishment

scholarly journals Awareness of different forms of child abuse among Beni Suef University students: descriptive survey

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nermeen N. Welson ◽  
Yasmen A. Mohamed
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
University Students ◽  
Corporal Punishment ◽  
Female Genital Mutilation ◽  
Psychological Problems ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Physical Child Abuse ◽  
Genital Mutilation ◽  
Science College ◽  
Female Genital

Abstract Background Child abuse is a worldwide phenomenon that can cause intense long-term aftereffects. Aim To evaluate the awareness of Beni Suef University students about different forms of child abuse as well as the size, causes, and complications of this problem in our society and determine the prevalence of physical child abuse. Methods The study included 1688 students from health science and non-health science colleges of Beni Suef University, Egypt. The study participants were asked to answer a questionnaire of two parts. The first part included questions about demographic data and personal experience of child abuse, and the second part included questions about opinions of participants on child abuse to assess their awareness and if there was any difference in the level of awareness between students of health science colleges and those of non-health science colleges. Results Health science college students were more life satisfied and felt more loved. Only 28.91% of the included students were not exposed to child abuse, while 12.59% of them suffered from wounds or fractures as a result of the abuse they were exposed to. About one third of the students thought that the commonest form of child abuse is verbal punishment such as threatening or humiliation and that the age at the greatest risk for abuse was the primary school age. About 68.36% of students thought that sexual abuse is a huge problem in our society. Only 21.56% of students disapproved child corporal punishment. More than half of the students stated that the most dangerous complication of child abuse is psychological problems such as depression. Most of the included students would talk to the child’s parents and advise them if they saw a case of abuse, while the least would call the police. Only half of the students disapproved female genital mutilation (FGM). The strongest predictive factors for FGM approval were rural residence and male sex. Students mainly thought that FGM is a social habit that is carried out for ethical causes. About half of the students approved legal punishment by the court for FGM performers. Conclusion A significant proportion of the students experienced physical child abuse which left no injuries in most cases; males and first academic year students show more exposure to abuse. Moreover, most of the students think that child corporal punishment can be allowed although about half of them think that the most dangerous aftereffect of child abuse is psychological problems. Lack of reporting the exposure to child abuse is explained by the largest percentage of students to be due to lack of awareness. Rural resident males show more approval of female genital mutilation. A significant lack of awareness about FGM complications is observed in both groups (the health science and non-health science college groups) and the opinions of both groups are very close.

Educate: Don’t punish

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoya Chowdhary ◽  
Falak Chowdhary ◽  
Rubal Gangopadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Alcohol Abuse ◽  
Physical Abuse ◽  
Corporal Punishment ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
Ethical Duty ◽  
Suicidal Attempts ◽  
Mental Trauma

We all have seen/ experienced incidences of corporal punishment, but most of us don’t see them as something strange/ to question, and yet it makes us feel uncomfortable. In other words; corporal punishment is just one of the wrong ways to discipline a child. In our society, it is a trend that children in school as well as at home are physically punished if they do not conform to the set social behavior. The punishment varies from physical abuse to psychological abuse. A child responds differently to the menace of corporal punishment and the uncontrolled anger of the parent/ teacher, may result in injuries or even death of the child. Children respect and admire adults whether parents/ teachers but these punishments may lead to anger and frustration which diminish the intimacy which the child has towards them and to cope up with the persistent abuse, the child indulges in self-destructive activities like alcohol abuse etc and even suicidal attempts. Chronic abuse of the child leads to a breach of the trust between the child and the parent/ teacher causing effects beyond physical/ mental trauma, there is an erosion of the self-esteem, fear of closeness and ill-conceived attempts to avoid unpleasant reminders of child abuse. The use of corporal punishment is strongly rooted in our society and is passed on through generations. However, this doesn’t mean that corporal punishment is justified. So, putting an end to corporal punishment is our ethical duty.

scholarly journals Associations between Stress and Child Verbal Abuse and Corporal Punishment during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Potential Effect Modification by Lockdown Measures

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rohani Jeharsae ◽  
Manusameen Jae-noh ◽  
Haneefah Jae-a-lee ◽  
Suhaida Waeteh ◽  
Nisuraida Nimu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
Corporal Punishment ◽  
Social Desirability ◽  
Stress Level ◽  
Potential Effect ◽  
Effect Modification ◽  
Verbal Abuse ◽  
Deep South ◽  
Measured Stress

AbstractBackgroundChild abuse appears to be on the increase during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the extent that lockdown measures modified the association between stress and abuses has not been systematically assessed.ObjectivesTo assess: 1) the association between caregiver’s stress and self-reported verbal abuse and corporal punishment of a child in the household, and; 2) modification of the stated association by experienced COVID-19 lockdown measures.Participants and settingsCaregivers residing in villages on lockdown in the Deep South of Thailand (n=466 participants)MethodsWe randomly sampled 12 villages in the study area, and 40 households per village. Trained enumerators who were residents of the sampled villages collected the data using phone-based interview. We measured stress level using the standard ST-5 questionnaire. We developed and pilot-tested questions for measurement of child abuse and lockdown experiences specifically for this study.ResultsCaregivers with moderate and higher levels of stress were more likely than caregivers with low level of stress to report verbal abuse (48% vs. 23%, respectively; Adj. OR = 3.12, 95% CI = 1.89, 5.15) and corporal punishment (28% vs. 8%, respectively; Adj. OR = 2.76, 95% CI = 1.41, 5.42). We found that COVID-19 lockdown experiences modified the associations between stress and verbal abuse and corporal punishment.ConclusionThere were associations between stress and abuses, which were modified by lockdown experiences. However, social desirability, lack of details in the answers, and potential confounding by mental illness co-morbidities were notable limitations of the study. Caveat is advised in the interpretation of the study findings.

Parental Love and Purposeful Violence

2019 ◽  
pp. 119-150
Author(s):  
Cynthia Godsoe
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Corporal Punishment ◽  
Standard Approach ◽  
Mens Rea ◽  
Parental Discipline ◽  
Hair Pulling ◽  
Parental Love ◽  
Assault And Battery ◽  
Intrafamilial Violence

The parental discipline privilege is a robust exception to the modern rule that punishes all violence, including intrafamilial violence. Every state allows parents to physically punish their children, often going well beyond ‘spanking’ to include hair-pulling, beatings with belts or sticks, even choking. The privilege is the only remaining status exception to criminal assault and battery; other once-permissible violence, such as abuse of wives and apprentices, has long been criminalized. Yet despite its anachronistic nature, parental corporal punishment remains surprisingly understudied. Accordingly, it is an important topic for inclusion in this volume on the Politicization of Safety. Experts unanimously agree that even mild corporal punishment carries significant developmental consequences. It can evolve into serious child abuse, and renders its victims more likely to hit their partners and children as adults, perpetuating the cycle of abuse. Particularly troubling is that corporal punishment plays out in highly gendered, racialized, and heteronormative ways. I argue that the underlying mens rea of the parental discipline privilege exception to assault both perpetuates this violence and warps the criminal law’s standard approach to punishment, which ordinarily matches culpability with control. In contrast, the parental privilege forgives purposeful beatings “intended to benefit a child.” After analyzing the implications of this paradox, this Chapter concludes by advocating the privilege’s abolition.

The Pediatrician and Corporal Punishment

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 639-641
Author(s):  
Morris A. Wessel
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Corporal Punishment ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
American Child ◽  
Educational Personnel

Concern about child abuse causes many pediatricians to question the widespread use of corporal punishment as a method of disciplining children. The "spare the rod and spoil the child" philosophy is deeply ingrained in American child rearing. This allows—indeed encourages—many parents and other adults caring for children to spank or hit with the hand, belt, or paddle, or to force a child to stand for long periods of time or to institute other immoderate measures when disciplining seems to be necessary. This acceptance of corporal punishment as a way of dealing with children poses an important question: Why is this true in America while in Luxemburg, Holland, Austria, France, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Cyprus, Japan, Ecuador, Iceland, Italy, Jordan, Mauritius, Norway, Israel, The Philippines, Portugal, and Russia, legislation prohibits the use of corporal punishment by educational personnel? And in Sweden, this prohibition now includes parents!1

scholarly journals Corporal Punishment in Nepalese School Children: Facts, Legalities and Implications

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Navin Mishra ◽  
Kashi Kant Thakur ◽  
Rabin Koirala ◽  
Devendra Shrestha ◽  
Rakesh Poudel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Corporal Punishment ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Traditional Beliefs ◽  
Child Rights ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Trained Teachers ◽  
The Right ◽  
Right To Dignity

While the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) demands that children be respected as humanbeings with the right to dignity and physical integrity, in Nepal corporal punishment is often considerednecessary to children’s upbringing, to facilitate learning and to instill discipline in the children. Theexistence of this cruel practice towards children is attributed to the weak national policy, unhealthyacademic competition among the schools, poorly trained teachers, superstitious traditional beliefs andhierarchical social structure. Consequently, the children are doomed to suffer this practice resulting innegative physical, mental and social welfare. Besides corporal punishment, sexual abuse in schoolgoing children seems to be frequent but mostly unreported. This is high time we eliminated this violenceagainst children in schools and it calls for holistic approach. For this, it is necessary to pursue a set codeof conduct and raise awareness among the teachers for the child rights in order to stop undignified,inhuman and undisciplined tradition. The awareness and capacity of the health professionals to deal withcomplexities of the child abuse also needs to be promoted. Furthermore, the need of improvements inthe national laws and their proper implementation is a longstanding challenge for the governmental andnongovernmental organizations.Key words: child abuse; child rights; corporal punishment; psychologicalDOI: 10.3126/jnps.v30i2.2929J. Nepal Paediatr. Soc. May-August, 2010 Vol 30(2) 98-109

Pain with Punishment and The Negotiation of Childhood: An Ethnographic Analysis of Children's Rights Processes in Maasailand

Africa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Archambault
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Corporal Punishment ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
School Settings ◽  
Children’S Learning ◽  
Ethnographic Analysis ◽  
Children's Learning

Children's rights activists contend that corporal punishment in schools is a form of child abuse which hinders children's learning. Yet most parents and teachers in Maasailand, Kenya consider corporal punishment, if properly employed, to be one of the most effective ways to instil the discipline necessary for children to learn and grow well. Responding to calls for a more empirical anthropology of rights, this article provides an ethnographic analysis of the practice of corporal punishment in domestic and primary school settings, exploring its pedagogical, developmental and social significance, and illuminating its role in the production and negotiation of identities and personhood.

A Right to Beat a Child? Corporal Punishment and the Law in Wilhelmine Germany

2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sace Elder
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Corporal Punishment ◽  
Young Male ◽  
Abuse Case ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
Open Question

In 1903, Elisabeth von Oertzen, a widely read author and one of the founders of the Society for the Protection of Children from Mistreatment and Exploitation, exhorted her fellow protectionists in the pages of her organization's newsletter to push for greater legal protections for children from abusive adults. The occasion for her admonition was the infamous Bavarian child abuse case in which a young male tutor, Andreas Dippold, had beaten his young charges so badly that one had succumbed to his mistreatment. The case demonstrated, von Oertzen wrote, that while torture had been abolished for adults, it was still widely practiced on children. One of the chief causes of child abuse, according to von Oertzen, was the claim to the so-called Züchtigungsrecht, the right to use corporal punishment. “Because of [the] defenselessness of children it has become customary to exercise on them the right to use corporal punishment, even where it does not exist,” she wrote. A host of people, including tutors, governesses, and babysitters claim the right, but “how far the right to corporal punishment is transferrable is entirely an open question!” Curiously, von Oertzen asserted both that there was an objectively existing “right” to use corporal punishment and that there was no consensus on where that right lay.

Can we Conquer Child Abuse if we don’t Outlaw Physical Chastisement of Children?

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 681-709 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Freeman ◽  
Bernadette J. Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Physical Abuse ◽  
Corporal Punishment ◽  
Physical Punishment ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Keynote Address ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Optimal Development ◽  
The World

Initially, this paper was delivered as a keynote address at the 17thispcan International Congress held in Hong Kong in 2008. It addresses the question: Can we conquer child abuse if we don’t first outlaw physical punishment of children? It is argued that children’s low status in society and children’s less than optimal development are inextricably linked to corporal punishment in childhood, as is the physical abuse of children that all too frequently begins as disciplinary violence, often euphemistically described as “smacking”, but tragically escalates, resulting in injuries and even death. Attention is drawn to increasing evidence from research around the world that reveals the futility and avoidable negative consequences of physical chastisement, and the paper ends on an optimistic note foreseeing the end of the corporal punishment of children in Asia and elsewhere – a world in which children’s rights are respected and children’s childhoods are freed from the pain and fear of disciplinary violence.

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